![]() ![]() ![]() The song features a heavily vocoded voice singing the phrase "Mr. And that's before the Swingle Singers/RKO Tarzan movie/Rachmaninoff symphonic finale gets underway. ![]() Plus the musical ambush on "way" at 2.51 still thrills. But this fabulous madness creates its own wonder – the bendy guitar solo, funky cello stop-chorus, and the most freakatastic vocoder since Sparky's Magic Piano. Lots of Gibb Brothers' vocal inflexions and Beatles' arrangement quotes (Penny Lane bell, Pepper panting, Abbey Road arpeggio guitars). The arrangement makes prominent use of a cowbell sound, although this is credited on the album to percussionist Bev Bevan, as that of a "fire extinguisher".ĭescribing the song for the BBC, Dominic King said: The song's arrangement has been called "Beatlesque", bearing similarities to Beatles songs "Martha My Dear" and "A Day in the Life". Blue Sky and 13 other songs in the next 2 weeks. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote Mr. It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. ![]() Blue Sky" after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO's follow-up to A New World Record: In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing "Mr. The song was played as a wake-up call to astronaut Christopher Ferguson on Day 3 of STS-135, the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Blue Sky" was the second single to be taken from Out of the Blue, peaking at number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and number 35 in the United States. Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite, on side three of the original double album. Blue Sky" is a song by British rock group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue (1977). ![]()
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